WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.130 --> 00:00:09.999 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Alright, so welcome to our our practice today we'll do a little meditation on grounding 2 00:00:10.450 --> 00:00:15.113 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and getting grounded amidst the change. I don't know about 3 00:00:16.070 --> 00:00:22.220 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): you, but I feel like there's something in that. The September back to school. Energy. 4 00:00:23.980 --> 00:00:29.459 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): And I see someone else is coming in so nice. So 5 00:00:29.490 --> 00:00:38.930 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): welcome. Hi, Dana, so good to see you. We're just a small group, and I'm about to guide a grounding meditation practice. 6 00:00:39.630 --> 00:00:42.079 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): So perfect perfect timing. 7 00:00:42.440 --> 00:01:02.290 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): So yeah, there's something in this like, back to school energy. Whether or not we're a student or a teacher, or have kids or anyone around us. I still feel like there's this fresh like energy for learning. But also it's a little hectic, and also the the environment, like the 8 00:01:02.290 --> 00:01:15.650 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): weather, is changing for many of us. If we're in the Us. The political system is definitely like in a lot of flux and intensity. So I thought a meditation on grounding to start could be helpful. 9 00:01:16.320 --> 00:01:23.623 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): So wherever you are, maybe just shifting and finding an easeful way to be 10 00:01:25.317 --> 00:01:30.569 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): yeah, that's lovely. Leaning against the back of your chair or wall. 11 00:01:31.080 --> 00:01:33.980 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): feeling the support of the earth. 12 00:01:36.120 --> 00:01:40.980 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): maybe pulling a blanket or sweater or shirt 13 00:01:41.100 --> 00:01:51.519 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): around you, or letting yourself visualize something cozy, like a campfire or candle flame. 14 00:01:54.240 --> 00:01:56.689 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and breathing in 15 00:01:57.200 --> 00:02:01.489 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): feeling the element of earth, of Prithby 16 00:02:03.500 --> 00:02:05.360 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): breathing out. 17 00:02:05.480 --> 00:02:10.039 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): grounding and centering in that element in you. 18 00:02:10.520 --> 00:02:14.170 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and starting with your body. So with the 19 00:02:14.760 --> 00:02:16.450 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): your skin. 20 00:02:18.850 --> 00:02:20.570 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): your bones. 21 00:02:22.250 --> 00:02:24.880 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): the density and weight 22 00:02:25.670 --> 00:02:27.959 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): of your own body. 23 00:02:28.660 --> 00:02:31.250 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and sometimes it can be so 24 00:02:32.380 --> 00:02:40.240 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): helpful to reflect on and connect to heaviness, pressure as a positive thing. 25 00:02:40.830 --> 00:02:42.639 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): And so, if there's 26 00:02:42.670 --> 00:02:43.990 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): any 27 00:02:44.050 --> 00:02:47.000 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): movement or gesture or 28 00:02:47.450 --> 00:03:01.519 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): kind of self touch that would feel supportive sometimes that can be like placing hands over the eyes or hands over the chest, or on one's thighs, or grasping either 29 00:03:01.830 --> 00:03:03.010 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): arm 30 00:03:03.740 --> 00:03:06.050 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and feeling 31 00:03:06.800 --> 00:03:08.839 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): supportive weight. 32 00:03:09.350 --> 00:03:12.170 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): quality of prithv 33 00:03:12.520 --> 00:03:15.070 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): heaviness, groundedness. 34 00:03:21.920 --> 00:03:28.790 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and then you can stay there, or, if you would like, touch your ring, finger and thumb. 35 00:03:29.320 --> 00:03:35.560 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): So, moving your ring, finger and thumb together. This is Prithvi Mudra 36 00:03:35.810 --> 00:03:37.329 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): earth, Madra. 37 00:03:38.570 --> 00:03:39.870 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and 38 00:03:40.070 --> 00:03:46.779 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): allowing Prithvi Madra to support you in feelings of groundedness. 39 00:03:47.080 --> 00:03:56.979 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): And so, wherever you are, you know, even if the day is rather busy and full, and you're moving from one thing to the next. 40 00:03:58.285 --> 00:04:00.759 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): tuning into the 41 00:04:02.830 --> 00:04:04.890 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): the grounds that 42 00:04:05.520 --> 00:04:10.540 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): it's always underneath, all of us holding us up, supporting us 43 00:04:11.960 --> 00:04:13.580 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and connecting 44 00:04:15.170 --> 00:04:17.230 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): into the grounding 45 00:04:17.579 --> 00:04:24.429 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): quality of earth of Prithvi. And you can hold this Madra for the meditation, if you would like. 46 00:04:27.040 --> 00:04:29.120 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and we'll begin to do 47 00:04:30.450 --> 00:04:36.610 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): grounding, Pranama, and to begin, we'll take a deep breath in 48 00:04:37.050 --> 00:04:40.779 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and exhale through the mouth with a sound and a sigh. 49 00:04:44.220 --> 00:04:46.057 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and then inhaling 50 00:04:48.020 --> 00:04:49.193 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and exhale 51 00:04:50.880 --> 00:04:54.019 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): with the sound and sigh. 52 00:04:56.490 --> 00:04:58.430 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): inhale 53 00:05:00.130 --> 00:05:01.810 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): exhale 54 00:05:02.440 --> 00:05:03.900 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): sounds. 55 00:05:04.560 --> 00:05:05.900 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and release. 56 00:05:18.160 --> 00:05:24.960 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and we'll start to, if it feels good and supportive to you to count our breathing. 57 00:05:25.160 --> 00:05:30.020 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): to find a kind of groundedness and rootedness within the breath. 58 00:05:30.490 --> 00:05:44.340 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and so that might look like breathing in for, say, 3 and out for 5, or your count might be different. We all have different lengths of breath, so yours might be in for 4 out for 6, or 59 00:05:45.030 --> 00:05:47.999 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): aiming to lengthen your exhale. 60 00:05:48.340 --> 00:05:54.240 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and on every exhale to feel the grounding, the rooting support of the earth. 61 00:05:56.360 --> 00:05:59.679 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): We'll practice together, inhaling 62 00:05:59.820 --> 00:06:02.210 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): 2, 3, 63 00:06:02.230 --> 00:06:07.349 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): or exhaling 2, 3, 64 00:06:07.550 --> 00:06:08.480 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): 4, 65 00:06:08.660 --> 00:06:10.850 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): 5, 6, 66 00:06:12.340 --> 00:06:14.670 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): inhaling 67 00:06:16.080 --> 00:06:18.300 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and exhaling. 68 00:06:23.050 --> 00:06:25.030 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): inhale 69 00:06:26.860 --> 00:06:28.780 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and exhale. 70 00:06:38.670 --> 00:06:40.650 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): inhale. 71 00:06:43.090 --> 00:06:44.800 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): exhale. 72 00:06:55.520 --> 00:06:57.750 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): continuing to breathe. 73 00:06:59.510 --> 00:07:02.299 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): perhaps letting the count go. 74 00:07:03.060 --> 00:07:06.260 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and releasing into a 75 00:07:06.620 --> 00:07:09.119 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): supportive, grounding breath. 76 00:07:09.800 --> 00:07:13.709 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): not needing to control the breath, or even 77 00:07:14.400 --> 00:07:19.159 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): bring awareness to it, but letting the breath breathe you. 78 00:07:47.290 --> 00:07:51.710 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): you can continue like this, or, if you would like. 79 00:07:51.890 --> 00:07:56.039 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): bringing in another pranayama Bormari breath. 80 00:07:57.200 --> 00:08:02.580 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): the sound of bees, the humming of bees, such a grounding 81 00:08:02.840 --> 00:08:03.920 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): gift! 82 00:08:04.900 --> 00:08:07.999 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): What bees give us their sound. 83 00:08:08.400 --> 00:08:12.450 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and this breath that harmonizes our nervous system. 84 00:08:13.470 --> 00:08:25.800 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and the way it's practiced is an inhale through the nose, and an exhale with the lips closed, exhaling through the nose, but kind of a vibrating humming at the back of your throat. 85 00:08:25.860 --> 00:08:32.469 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and you can vibrate through your chest through your head and nasal cavity wherever you would like. 86 00:08:33.520 --> 00:08:34.880 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and we'll do that 87 00:08:35.400 --> 00:08:38.669 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): about 8 times together. 88 00:08:38.700 --> 00:08:43.809 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and you can allow it to be as loud or soft as you would like 89 00:08:44.530 --> 00:08:46.280 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): inhaling. 90 00:08:46.880 --> 00:08:54.010 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and with the sounds like humming bees exhaling. 91 00:09:08.360 --> 00:09:09.630 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): hmm! 92 00:09:18.630 --> 00:09:20.580 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Hmm! 93 00:09:28.090 --> 00:09:29.070 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Hmm! 94 00:09:36.410 --> 00:09:37.600 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Hmm! 95 00:09:45.570 --> 00:09:46.520 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Hmm! 96 00:09:52.410 --> 00:09:53.320 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Hmm! 97 00:10:08.980 --> 00:10:11.579 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Even the sound. Go 98 00:10:12.900 --> 00:10:15.610 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): your mind and body rest 99 00:10:17.490 --> 00:10:21.000 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): this field of grounded stillness. 100 00:10:23.070 --> 00:10:29.160 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): We'll rest together in silence, and in a little while I'll guide you back with my voice. 101 00:12:12.620 --> 00:12:14.989 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): you breath in 102 00:12:16.490 --> 00:12:18.660 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): deep breath out 103 00:12:25.650 --> 00:12:27.799 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): in a world that is 104 00:12:28.020 --> 00:12:29.860 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): often rushing 105 00:12:29.970 --> 00:12:34.080 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): makes us feel like there's always more to be done. 106 00:12:35.080 --> 00:12:37.230 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): rest and stillness 107 00:12:37.250 --> 00:12:39.699 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): being grounded and rooted 108 00:12:39.950 --> 00:12:42.769 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): is truly revolutionary. 109 00:12:44.680 --> 00:12:48.030 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and it's not new to practice 110 00:12:49.700 --> 00:12:53.609 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): as old as time ancestral practice 111 00:12:54.080 --> 00:12:56.659 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): that all of our ancestors 112 00:12:57.070 --> 00:12:58.330 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): likely 113 00:12:59.090 --> 00:13:01.670 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): shared in some form. 114 00:13:07.240 --> 00:13:10.360 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): So, knowing as you pause. 115 00:13:10.800 --> 00:13:12.940 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): take that sacred pause 116 00:13:13.410 --> 00:13:14.880 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): as you rest. 117 00:13:15.190 --> 00:13:17.100 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): to find grounding 118 00:13:17.980 --> 00:13:21.429 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): that you're reconnecting to elemental 119 00:13:23.240 --> 00:13:26.680 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): qualities like Prithpi, like earth 120 00:13:28.060 --> 00:13:32.259 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and that are each of our birthright in all of our 121 00:13:33.220 --> 00:13:34.490 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): varied. 122 00:13:36.220 --> 00:13:39.550 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): unique lineages and traditions. 123 00:13:43.370 --> 00:13:47.610 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): So, allowing yourself to just reflect. 124 00:13:47.730 --> 00:13:50.270 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): maybe imagine, or create 125 00:13:52.060 --> 00:13:55.959 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): open to the question, How did my ancestors 126 00:13:56.330 --> 00:13:57.940 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): round themselves? 127 00:13:58.090 --> 00:13:59.880 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): How did they feel 128 00:13:59.920 --> 00:14:01.780 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): connected to the earth 129 00:14:04.420 --> 00:14:09.770 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and doesn't have to be blood ancestors? Although it could be? 130 00:14:09.990 --> 00:14:14.469 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): This could be a inquiry with your spiritual ancestors. 131 00:14:17.230 --> 00:14:19.700 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): chosen family 132 00:14:21.020 --> 00:14:22.849 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): wisdom teachers. 133 00:14:30.420 --> 00:14:33.840 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and the answers don't have to be like 134 00:14:34.360 --> 00:14:39.980 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): huge and radical. It can be like, oh, yeah, they planted. They planted crops. 135 00:14:40.900 --> 00:14:42.800 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): they planted seeds 136 00:14:43.020 --> 00:14:44.490 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): intended 137 00:14:44.530 --> 00:14:47.070 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): the animals in their environment. 138 00:14:52.490 --> 00:14:56.920 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): They gathered in circle and sang around fires 139 00:14:57.840 --> 00:14:59.100 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): or water. 140 00:15:02.980 --> 00:15:05.849 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): letting your mind. Remember. 141 00:15:06.270 --> 00:15:07.510 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): create 142 00:15:08.340 --> 00:15:09.490 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): makeup. 143 00:15:10.530 --> 00:15:16.259 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): We'll take some time to just reflect on how our ancestors, chosen 144 00:15:17.760 --> 00:15:19.169 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): or otherwise 145 00:15:20.060 --> 00:15:21.969 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): rooted and grounded. 146 00:15:22.180 --> 00:15:24.809 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): cared for self and community. 147 00:15:52.010 --> 00:15:57.530 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): And as you're ready. If there's any movements that feel supportive. 148 00:15:58.420 --> 00:16:05.839 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): perhaps a stretch in one direction, I'm lifting one arm up over my head and stretching to the side 149 00:16:08.620 --> 00:16:11.140 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and then the other side. 150 00:16:15.740 --> 00:16:18.939 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): feeling the weight, and also 151 00:16:19.000 --> 00:16:24.690 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): that power to move in space, that being grounded, gives us like from a solid foundation. 152 00:16:25.360 --> 00:16:27.590 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): I can stretch up and 153 00:16:28.930 --> 00:16:30.400 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): expand. 154 00:16:31.990 --> 00:16:43.850 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and then invitation to keep the focus kind of 50% in words, 50% outwards. And we'll move into writing or journaling or sharing a little about? 155 00:16:44.350 --> 00:16:45.560 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): How 156 00:16:45.720 --> 00:16:53.490 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): do we envision self care right now? Perhaps inspired by our ancestors, chosen spiritual, imagined? 157 00:16:53.882 --> 00:17:13.619 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): How are we grounding and rooting, connecting to the earth, and so we'll take a few minutes just to reflect or to write. You can write in the chat, and then, if anyone would like to. We'll move into sharing, and I'll play a little music, as I often do. I find that 158 00:17:13.859 --> 00:17:26.330 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): for me one of the ways is reflecting. My ancestors definitely like, chanted and got together and chanted and saying food was a big part of it, too. But I'm gonna play some music so we can. 159 00:17:26.500 --> 00:17:27.760 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): I can listen. 160 00:17:29.700 --> 00:17:30.630 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): reflect. 161 00:17:48.160 --> 00:17:48.880 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Hmm. 162 00:23:16.700 --> 00:23:19.189 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): I'm taking, maybe I'm 163 00:23:19.990 --> 00:23:25.489 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): few moments, to finish up your writing, you can always keep writing more 164 00:23:25.880 --> 00:23:27.230 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): later. 165 00:23:29.780 --> 00:23:39.500 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): then i'd love to invite anyone who would like to to share out loud or in the chat around 166 00:23:39.640 --> 00:23:49.200 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): this very emergent theme of what is supporting us with grounding, with connecting to our rootedness to the earth. 167 00:23:49.270 --> 00:24:03.899 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): You now your ancestors, spiritual, chosen, you know. But all all the things. What's supporting you, or what are you moving towards. Even if you feel like, maybe you're not doing the greatest job. 168 00:24:04.310 --> 00:24:08.269 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Cause I think that's so important, too, is like there's no 169 00:24:08.530 --> 00:24:09.900 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): judgment 170 00:24:09.930 --> 00:24:12.199 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): there. It's just a process. 171 00:24:12.950 --> 00:24:17.460 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): So, opening up the space for shares out loud or in the chat. 172 00:24:36.960 --> 00:24:40.070 dana wilk (she/her): Hi, I'm Dana. I 173 00:24:41.390 --> 00:24:43.100 dana wilk (she/her): I feel like 174 00:24:44.230 --> 00:24:47.369 dana wilk (she/her): when you're talking about practices and who 175 00:24:47.540 --> 00:24:49.259 dana wilk (she/her): it was. I just felt like 176 00:24:50.050 --> 00:24:54.930 dana wilk (she/her): a lot who is in my blood lineage. It feels like a lot of grief. 177 00:24:54.940 --> 00:24:56.530 dana wilk (she/her): And there's this. 178 00:24:57.400 --> 00:25:03.099 dana wilk (she/her): and it feels really beautiful. What's on the other side? Because I know who would have been practicing 179 00:25:03.560 --> 00:25:04.680 dana wilk (she/her): embodied 180 00:25:04.840 --> 00:25:08.340 dana wilk (she/her): practice and spiritually embodied practice 181 00:25:08.560 --> 00:25:09.640 dana wilk (she/her): would have been 182 00:25:10.240 --> 00:25:12.630 dana wilk (she/her): a long, long time ago. 183 00:25:13.170 --> 00:25:15.707 dana wilk (she/her): And just how sad that feels 184 00:25:17.000 --> 00:25:18.490 dana wilk (she/her): to really be 185 00:25:18.910 --> 00:25:20.880 dana wilk (she/her): struggling with the emotional 186 00:25:21.320 --> 00:25:27.270 dana wilk (she/her): self regulation, or things that are just like, oh, I would have been a part of community, and I just would have been helped. 187 00:25:28.798 --> 00:25:31.979 dana wilk (she/her): or somebody would have a relationship with the earth. And 188 00:25:33.100 --> 00:25:40.619 dana wilk (she/her): yeah, it was just it feels so far away. So I feel like what I know about healing is grief is good to attend to. 189 00:25:42.450 --> 00:25:45.159 dana wilk (she/her): and I'm just really grateful for 190 00:25:45.620 --> 00:25:48.749 dana wilk (she/her): people sharing lineages that don't 191 00:25:49.190 --> 00:25:50.999 dana wilk (she/her): belong to my blood 192 00:25:51.460 --> 00:25:54.059 dana wilk (she/her): to learn from, and just how much I owe 193 00:25:54.810 --> 00:26:00.160 dana wilk (she/her): music and culture and spiritual lineages that are embodied, that 194 00:26:01.160 --> 00:26:03.009 dana wilk (she/her): that belong to other people 195 00:26:04.270 --> 00:26:05.760 dana wilk (she/her): in other places. 196 00:26:07.380 --> 00:26:09.029 dana wilk (she/her): or to this place. 197 00:26:09.910 --> 00:26:11.330 dana wilk (she/her): So yeah. 198 00:26:11.500 --> 00:26:15.779 dana wilk (she/her): I thank you for opening this up, because it was really on time. 199 00:26:16.270 --> 00:26:16.910 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Hmm. 200 00:26:17.580 --> 00:26:20.664 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): thank you, Dana, and for bringing up the 201 00:26:21.090 --> 00:26:23.850 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): the grief, I think about that a lot 202 00:26:24.060 --> 00:26:44.690 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): with some of my immediate blood family, or, you know, like a generation or 2 back, and how they didn't really, you know, like my grandmother on my dad's side, she's an orphan. She had her 1st child when she was 13, you know, like I don't think she had a lot of opportunity to ground 203 00:26:45.280 --> 00:26:48.649 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): or to rest, and 204 00:26:50.160 --> 00:26:52.469 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and so some of 205 00:26:52.860 --> 00:27:03.589 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): the ability to just like, grieve that, and and know that. You know from epigenetics. We know that that's in us, like we carry some of those things from our ancestors. 206 00:27:03.690 --> 00:27:16.199 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): And I also, I feel like I've been really reflecting on lately on, you know, Yoga is unity right? And it didn't come to any one person. It came through to a lot of people 207 00:27:16.850 --> 00:27:21.090 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): at a particular time and place in in this valley, but 208 00:27:21.690 --> 00:27:31.339 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): it's also it's sort of like the all of our inheritance, the ability to connect to what brings us to union. 209 00:27:31.610 --> 00:27:32.980 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and 210 00:27:33.260 --> 00:27:35.319 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): that has felt really 211 00:27:35.900 --> 00:27:43.160 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): reassuring, you know, and really like nurturing and nourishing to me lately. Like 212 00:27:43.260 --> 00:27:48.199 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): we all get to remember this, we all get to remember these practices together, and it's 213 00:27:48.760 --> 00:27:50.910 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): shows up in different forms. 214 00:27:51.580 --> 00:27:54.299 dana wilk (she/her): Wow! I love that. And it's kind of 215 00:27:54.400 --> 00:28:00.619 dana wilk (she/her): blowing my mind a little bit. I'm trying to understand. I wonder if you could speak more to that, because I think what I'm stuck with. 216 00:28:01.440 --> 00:28:04.700 dana wilk (she/her): what it's hard for me to bridge the gap of 217 00:28:04.710 --> 00:28:06.699 dana wilk (she/her): is the shame of 218 00:28:07.190 --> 00:28:08.530 dana wilk (she/her): of seeing 219 00:28:09.390 --> 00:28:10.420 dana wilk (she/her): people who 220 00:28:11.020 --> 00:28:15.310 dana wilk (she/her): how how much there has been appropriation in it. 221 00:28:15.450 --> 00:28:17.700 dana wilk (she/her): global violence in the process. 222 00:28:18.232 --> 00:28:23.029 dana wilk (she/her): Of so many cultures. And so it's hard for me to think that that belongs to everyone. 223 00:28:23.570 --> 00:28:24.810 dana wilk (she/her): And also 224 00:28:25.650 --> 00:28:27.150 dana wilk (she/her): and also sit with. 225 00:28:27.840 --> 00:28:32.579 dana wilk (she/her): Yeah, it's I'm I'm it's hard. I I love to hear more. 226 00:28:33.150 --> 00:28:35.110 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Yeah. Yeah. 227 00:28:35.670 --> 00:28:37.760 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Hmm, it's like. 228 00:28:37.800 --> 00:29:02.120 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): it's so much for me connected to intention. Right? Like, if we're just taking a practice cause, of course it does. It comes in with a particular cultural context and packaging Yoga, I mean, like through the Indus Valley, and you know, influenced by Hinduism and Jainism and Islam and Buddhism, and all of these things. But it's not under the purview of any one of those only, either 229 00:29:02.120 --> 00:29:08.239 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): right? So Yoga doesn't belong to Hinduism or Jainism or Buddhism. It was always sort of 230 00:29:08.290 --> 00:29:15.620 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): a practice of people connecting to the earth and the elements, and 231 00:29:17.080 --> 00:29:21.979 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): even then there was no one definitive way to do that. There were many different 232 00:29:22.020 --> 00:29:27.119 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): lineages for many different answers, different ways and branches of of practice. 233 00:29:27.470 --> 00:29:28.610 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and 234 00:29:30.060 --> 00:29:33.709 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): also a practice of finding freedom from suffering. 235 00:29:33.790 --> 00:29:45.489 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): you know. So in the various ways that that was possible. And then some people were practicing for their own liberation, like really, really, specifically, and others were practicing for their own and their communities. 236 00:29:45.780 --> 00:29:46.790 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and 237 00:29:47.040 --> 00:30:16.559 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): all of those things like connecting to the elements connecting to the earth, finding self knowledge, finding stillness, you know, caring for one's own liberation and others. Those feel like universal truths. You know that we find in many different spiritual traditions, like from Christianity to Paganism, to Judaism, to Islam, right like all over. And so when I get to like the heart of what Yoga is like back before 238 00:30:16.650 --> 00:30:22.799 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Romanical patriarchy, certainly before European colonialism, like the heart of Yoga 239 00:30:22.830 --> 00:30:41.589 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): for me, is that sense of connection between myself and my environment. So it's not even. It's not even connection. I just am one with my environment, and I'm 1 with myself and with everyone else. It's not like I'm there all the time, right? Like I'm in that 240 00:30:41.650 --> 00:30:45.769 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): experience of yoga like. I think of it as like actual yoga. 241 00:30:45.840 --> 00:31:07.756 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): quite rarely. But when I am there it's that reminder that that's what we're all heir to right, that feeling of connection, that that experience of oneness, and that it doesn't actually matter, you know, whether we meditated or whether we did Asana, or whether we prayed or you know, whatever the rules kind of are for our particular lineages or traditions. 242 00:31:08.420 --> 00:31:17.170 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): what matters is that oneness? And so I think that's what I mean, like like at the at its heart, honoring Yoga's roots 243 00:31:17.290 --> 00:31:18.470 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): to me, is 244 00:31:18.860 --> 00:31:24.499 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): honoring that oneness, and connecting in whatever ways are possible to that oneness. And so it doesn't 245 00:31:24.770 --> 00:31:42.040 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): kind of like thich not Han, who was a Zen Buddhist monk. He he was like, yeah, I have a shaved head, and I'm a monk. But I'm am I really a monk like? What does that? You know my Buddhist like? I'm not a Buddhist right? Like the label is not so important. And so I wouldn't say this. I do want to be clear 246 00:31:43.046 --> 00:31:48.589 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): out in public on Instagram, because I think you're right, Dana. There's like 247 00:31:48.950 --> 00:31:51.750 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): so much misappropriation of Yoga that 248 00:31:52.060 --> 00:31:52.940 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): it's 249 00:31:53.210 --> 00:32:01.220 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): it's important to honor the roots. But then part of what it means to honor the roots is to go deeper than just like. 250 00:32:01.310 --> 00:32:11.879 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Oh, y'all, we're doing it wrong, like, sure. Of course we could do better. We can be more honoring. But below that, underneath that once we're already caring about honoring the roots. 251 00:32:11.920 --> 00:32:23.779 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): we all have direct access to the divine. No one gets to mediate that, you know, not because we're Indian, or because we're, you know, in a particular Yoga lineage that that's not anyone's 252 00:32:23.850 --> 00:32:33.930 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): right or role to mediate for anyone else. We all have direct connection to Yoga itself Union itself. So I don't know if that's helpful. I think it's like. 253 00:32:33.930 --> 00:32:35.280 dana wilk (she/her): Ew, that is. 254 00:32:35.510 --> 00:32:36.270 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Yeah. 255 00:32:36.760 --> 00:32:37.390 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Go ahead. 256 00:32:37.390 --> 00:32:40.550 dana wilk (she/her): I interrupted. So he's asked to get. 257 00:32:43.170 --> 00:32:46.139 dana wilk (she/her): Oh, no, you are continuing on. 258 00:32:46.140 --> 00:32:55.179 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): It's like caring like as long as we're caring for the cultural elements. I think then we get to be like. And yes. 259 00:32:55.220 --> 00:33:00.329 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): in truth. It is ours. It's all of ours. It's all of our cultural inheritance, you know. 260 00:33:01.070 --> 00:33:16.540 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): one groups. It never was meant to be that it's just that we've so disconnected it from the full science of Yoga. And so yes, we connect it. Honor the roots, practice, you know, and then, like, have your own experience. 261 00:33:17.310 --> 00:33:23.769 dana wilk (she/her): I I love that. And when you were 1st talking I wrote in the chat like like a confluence, because you were talking about like 262 00:33:23.830 --> 00:33:34.239 dana wilk (she/her): in the industry of our valley, like there's all these, you know, these different practices that really came together to form Yoga, and different traditions that came together to form Yoga 263 00:33:34.900 --> 00:33:40.539 dana wilk (she/her): and foreign. The practice and how it evolved over time is what I'm imagining. It's almost like this river. 264 00:33:40.550 --> 00:33:45.190 dana wilk (she/her): And just like this beautiful natural element of like, how we do come together. 265 00:33:45.490 --> 00:33:46.620 dana wilk (she/her): And 266 00:33:47.690 --> 00:33:49.690 dana wilk (she/her): I think what's lacking in 267 00:33:49.960 --> 00:33:54.819 dana wilk (she/her): what's lacking in what's premise? Capitalist patriarchy is essentially humility. 268 00:33:54.980 --> 00:33:55.660 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Yeah, okay. 269 00:33:55.660 --> 00:34:02.140 dana wilk (she/her): It is the belief that you can be superior to another human being, and that that's okay, and that you don't have to have relationship with Earth. 270 00:34:02.250 --> 00:34:03.870 dana wilk (she/her): And that's okay. 271 00:34:04.190 --> 00:34:08.190 dana wilk (she/her): And it's so destructive. So within. 272 00:34:08.310 --> 00:34:12.180 dana wilk (she/her): without, without humility and a critical lens 273 00:34:12.280 --> 00:34:14.439 dana wilk (she/her): about structural violence. 274 00:34:15.909 --> 00:34:17.949 dana wilk (she/her): then it is leather might. 275 00:34:18.690 --> 00:34:19.420 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Right. 276 00:34:20.690 --> 00:34:23.010 dana wilk (she/her): Is what I'm hearing and and like 277 00:34:24.440 --> 00:34:26.850 dana wilk (she/her): right, they keep on thinking of. Like 278 00:34:27.389 --> 00:34:42.330 dana wilk (she/her): all of you know, I don't come from people who I've come from people who've done a lot of harm and have done a lot of harm within recent generations without accountability. So how I look at my ancestors is more like. 279 00:34:42.600 --> 00:34:45.800 dana wilk (she/her): okay, let me go way back before the doctrine of discovery. 280 00:34:45.830 --> 00:34:48.749 dana wilk (she/her): and everybody else who might have been like. 281 00:34:49.870 --> 00:34:55.350 dana wilk (she/her): you know, who might have been continuing to advocate and be in kind of this warrior 282 00:34:55.480 --> 00:35:03.010 dana wilk (she/her): posture towards harm and structures of harm. But I know that not in recent history is that true 283 00:35:03.590 --> 00:35:15.140 dana wilk (she/her): that people haven't determined to heal so so much of like who wrote this book that I love like Toni Morrison, and how important that was to me like bell hooks, like all of these thinkers, like 284 00:35:15.850 --> 00:35:24.109 dana wilk (she/her): the picture of Frida Kahlo, and I think of like it makes me think, if not for like, who would be be in their economy even 285 00:35:24.130 --> 00:35:25.750 dana wilk (she/her): without black women? 286 00:35:26.240 --> 00:35:35.379 dana wilk (she/her): And who would we be with human rights without black women, without Harriet Tubman? Without like? We wouldn't be where we're at, and so to pretend like. 287 00:35:35.430 --> 00:35:49.660 dana wilk (she/her): So for me, it's meaningful for thinking of who are my spirit ancestors, and not necessarily my blood lineage ancestors, because that's bad news bears my bad blood lineage ancestors. Just a really, it's really 288 00:35:49.750 --> 00:35:52.660 dana wilk (she/her): like I'm not. When I'm praying. I'm not praying to them. 289 00:35:53.100 --> 00:35:53.860 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Yeah. 290 00:35:53.860 --> 00:35:59.600 dana wilk (she/her): I'm praying to the ones that have done healing, and that being be a ways out, and the intellectual and artist. 291 00:35:59.780 --> 00:36:00.960 dana wilk (she/her): and like 292 00:36:01.790 --> 00:36:04.120 dana wilk (she/her): people sharing their practice. 293 00:36:07.700 --> 00:36:09.700 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): yeah, I love that. 294 00:36:09.870 --> 00:36:12.640 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Dana. I'm feeling it. And I'm also like. 295 00:36:13.170 --> 00:36:23.889 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Well, I'm really interested in your particular lineage in. And then also, I'm curious if you know about the work of surge showing up for racial justice or. 296 00:36:23.890 --> 00:36:31.639 dana wilk (she/her): I do. Yeah, I really love it. I really love it a lot. I really love it a lot. And I think in my area. 297 00:36:31.910 --> 00:36:32.370 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Yeah. 298 00:36:32.370 --> 00:36:43.559 dana wilk (she/her): The way that that's been organized. There isn't a particularly nuanced understanding like when so with search, there's often aligning with other organizations. 299 00:36:44.430 --> 00:36:46.049 dana wilk (she/her): And really seeking 300 00:36:46.060 --> 00:37:06.390 dana wilk (she/her): that leadership. So I think that that can be complicated in my area. I know that there probably isn't a nuance to understand with tribal nations history. And so how you can just be very much like you think you're doing the right thing. But the organization is often putting themselves at odds with other tribal nations. And so it's just like I I've organized 301 00:37:06.500 --> 00:37:13.429 dana wilk (she/her): at a distance, but not up close, because I don't know how to navigate like. How do you not excuse me? My language. 302 00:37:13.430 --> 00:37:14.950 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Totally. No, it's all good. 303 00:37:15.530 --> 00:37:17.509 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Yeah. The part of the work that I'm doing 304 00:37:18.440 --> 00:37:22.065 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): connected to this is, you know. 305 00:37:22.680 --> 00:37:34.499 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): I just particularly know aware, aware. La! So alliance for white anti-racist everywhere. I thought, maybe it stands for something else now. But they and some of my friends are white folks who are in it. 306 00:37:34.580 --> 00:37:42.009 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and they did a lot of work around like, who are the white ancestors? Right? That may not be our actual blood ancestors. 307 00:37:42.010 --> 00:37:42.640 dana wilk (she/her): Yeah. 308 00:37:42.640 --> 00:37:45.640 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Who were, you know. 309 00:37:46.050 --> 00:37:57.139 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): on the Underground Railroad. We're like interrupting and standing up to patriarchy and oppression, and and how powerful that is to also have a lineage of yeah, like Quakers, right? 310 00:37:57.750 --> 00:38:06.960 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Like, like we get to claim those, too. When I say we aren't speaking, because you know, my mom's white. Right? So I have also. And my grandma. 311 00:38:07.000 --> 00:38:18.489 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): who said to my parents, like or to my mom, you should not marry this Indian man right like I love my grandma. She's amazing. She came so far and 312 00:38:18.854 --> 00:38:44.699 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and so it's like I've got those those folks in my ancestry, too. And I do this is gonna go, and, you know, take it or leave it. But I actually feel like, so my grandma's passed on now. But I feel like there's aspects of her in the spirit realm that are that came to understanding and realization that she never could in life, and that my practice now actually 313 00:38:45.490 --> 00:38:46.350 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): forwards and back. 314 00:38:46.760 --> 00:38:57.539 dana wilk (she/her): Yeah, I feel that completely. I feel that completely, because I've had a similar experience with somebody who has passed and where I'm like, oh, they're continuing to heal as I heal. And there's that there's that concept 315 00:38:57.900 --> 00:38:59.000 dana wilk (she/her): within. 316 00:38:59.010 --> 00:39:10.019 dana wilk (she/her): I I understand, like in terms of the time, space continuum isn't a thing. And so my feeling helps people from before and after, like 317 00:39:10.110 --> 00:39:13.859 dana wilk (she/her): future ancestors, future ancestors, and past ancestors. 318 00:39:14.050 --> 00:39:14.910 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Yeah. 319 00:39:15.180 --> 00:39:22.050 dana wilk (she/her): And that kind of goes back to like. It's something that belongs to all of us, because there's this reality that we operate in. 320 00:39:22.180 --> 00:39:26.300 dana wilk (she/her): like. I trust, life. I don't trust white supremist capitalist patriarchy. 321 00:39:26.620 --> 00:39:27.930 dana wilk (she/her): and I live in it. 322 00:39:28.348 --> 00:39:36.899 dana wilk (she/her): So it's just like in living in it. How can I take the most possible care and integrity within my practice, and as I share it. 323 00:39:37.150 --> 00:39:39.580 dana wilk (she/her): so that I can really be clear and 324 00:39:40.100 --> 00:39:42.339 dana wilk (she/her): speak what is true 325 00:39:42.450 --> 00:39:47.380 dana wilk (she/her): as a way of healing, and then within my own practice. It's something that belongs to me as a human. 326 00:39:48.260 --> 00:39:49.430 dana wilk (she/her): That I share 327 00:39:50.180 --> 00:39:53.960 dana wilk (she/her): like anything that's embodied, and feeling is maybe what I can. 328 00:39:54.400 --> 00:39:55.200 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Hmm. 329 00:39:55.200 --> 00:39:59.210 dana wilk (she/her): To hear what you're saying like it is something that does belong to all of us. 330 00:39:59.410 --> 00:40:06.189 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Yeah. And also again, you know, take or leave this part, but from many different Yoga 331 00:40:06.320 --> 00:40:13.990 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): lineage, perspectives. Reincarnation means we've all lived in many different shapes. And 332 00:40:14.600 --> 00:40:28.100 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): so, you know, getting stuck on saying, like Yoga has to be in the Indian package, it it really ultimately undermines that that essence of like. 333 00:40:28.100 --> 00:40:28.540 dana wilk (she/her): Wow! 334 00:40:28.540 --> 00:40:36.320 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): I know we've all been in all these different packages, and what's the essence like honor, the culture, honor, the depth, honor, the nuance. But 335 00:40:36.410 --> 00:40:40.722 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): the package that it comes in is actually some of the least relevant, you know. 336 00:40:41.600 --> 00:40:43.719 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): while honouring the 337 00:40:45.940 --> 00:40:47.969 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): it's almost like the 338 00:40:48.550 --> 00:40:55.330 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): the expanse. You know the the spiritual expanse or the cultural context. 339 00:40:55.560 --> 00:41:05.189 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): So yeah, it's like a both hands. And this is where it gets to me, really nuanced, really complex, like, how do we take accountability and response. 340 00:41:05.190 --> 00:41:05.680 dana wilk (she/her): Early. 341 00:41:05.680 --> 00:41:06.639 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): How do we care 342 00:41:07.220 --> 00:41:11.880 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and innovate? You know there's not like a simple answer for those things. 343 00:41:12.399 --> 00:41:18.789 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): How do we bring Yoga into like our classrooms, you know, and our stressful like power 344 00:41:18.900 --> 00:41:23.927 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): school dynamics. I would just watched something by thinker 345 00:41:24.850 --> 00:41:29.229 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): who was talking about how, as a as a therapist. She's like. 346 00:41:29.340 --> 00:41:53.159 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): we're essentially cops, you know, like we're regulating, we're controlling. So I'm like, Wow, if you think of yoga teachers like, is there a way that we're part of a system that's creating compliance versus innovation, you know. And so it's not simple. And it's the same with cultural appropriation and care if it was, we would have a rule book, but we don't, you know. So we're just like. 347 00:41:53.580 --> 00:41:58.570 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): I think there's a beauty, and like tussling with it and and exploring it. 348 00:41:59.320 --> 00:42:00.350 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Yeah. 349 00:42:02.060 --> 00:42:03.000 dana wilk (she/her): Yay! 350 00:42:03.780 --> 00:42:05.109 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Thank you. Dana. 351 00:42:05.110 --> 00:42:05.950 dana wilk (she/her): Thank you. Thank you. 352 00:42:05.950 --> 00:42:07.580 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Do you have something? 353 00:42:07.890 --> 00:42:18.420 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Yeah and welcome. I thought, I just wanna say, welcome to someone. You joined us. We're reflecting on grounding practices, and we've kind of 354 00:42:18.760 --> 00:42:23.958 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): ventured into talking about how we honor the roots of Yoga in various ways. 355 00:42:25.050 --> 00:42:28.100 Justine (she/her): I guess I'm kind of linking on to what 356 00:42:28.624 --> 00:42:34.435 Justine (she/her): Dana was saying about the capitalism in this culture and everything. And 357 00:42:35.930 --> 00:42:48.149 Justine (she/her): I watched a presentation where neurodivergent, like neurodivergence or neurodiversity, and the word, the history of the word normal actually 358 00:42:48.420 --> 00:42:49.740 Justine (she/her): started. 359 00:42:49.760 --> 00:42:55.043 Justine (she/her): And and this is also with education, system, with data. Everything's about data. 360 00:42:55.900 --> 00:43:04.630 Justine (she/her): the word normal began during the industrial res revolution. Talk about people being normal and 361 00:43:04.670 --> 00:43:12.340 Justine (she/her): labeling people as normal. And the history of normal. So all these standards were created 362 00:43:12.840 --> 00:43:14.919 Justine (she/her): throughout. And so 363 00:43:15.730 --> 00:43:23.900 Justine (she/her): I'm not. I'm not doing this presentation justice by summarizing it in my own way. But the thing that hit me was that 364 00:43:24.770 --> 00:43:28.819 Justine (she/her): so it all started with the industrial revolution about 365 00:43:29.100 --> 00:43:38.139 Justine (she/her): normalcy. And having all these standards and different systems systems of normal like this is education system. This is 366 00:43:38.570 --> 00:43:43.119 Justine (she/her): name any system we have right now here, and 367 00:43:43.240 --> 00:43:44.240 Justine (she/her): how 368 00:43:45.010 --> 00:43:45.800 Justine (she/her): it 369 00:43:46.740 --> 00:43:58.560 Justine (she/her): it's actually not normal or not natural, because it doesn't take into account the seasons it doesn't take into account humanity or human bodies. And 370 00:43:58.680 --> 00:43:59.720 Justine (she/her): so 371 00:44:00.610 --> 00:44:10.019 Justine (she/her): that this it, we've actually done a create a lot of harm. And we probably created all these mental health issues from 372 00:44:10.440 --> 00:44:11.200 Justine (she/her): this. 373 00:44:11.860 --> 00:44:18.480 Justine (she/her): I don't know the standpoint, but i i i also want to go back to collective care, too, because 374 00:44:18.630 --> 00:44:23.640 Justine (she/her): I feel because of the cultures like I feel like there's not. 375 00:44:23.920 --> 00:44:29.990 Justine (she/her): People don't know what community is. They don't understand it. They don't know how to create it sometimes 376 00:44:30.190 --> 00:44:33.160 Justine (she/her): in these systems that we work in 377 00:44:33.400 --> 00:44:40.520 Justine (she/her): or live in, but definitely in the systems that we work in because it's all about productivity and having. 378 00:44:42.210 --> 00:44:47.190 Justine (she/her): If you see what I'm doing here, it's like it's a non stop thing. And so 379 00:44:47.440 --> 00:44:49.479 Justine (she/her): I feel that 380 00:44:50.436 --> 00:44:58.279 Justine (she/her): there is a lot of grief. There is grief because we are missing something because it's been missing for a very long time. And 381 00:44:58.610 --> 00:45:06.029 Justine (she/her): another thing, and I don't know if it's the same presentation or a different one. Talking about native American principles and values. 382 00:45:06.090 --> 00:45:07.180 Justine (she/her): how 383 00:45:07.890 --> 00:45:09.720 Justine (she/her): that was the 384 00:45:10.150 --> 00:45:15.860 Justine (she/her): it through. That was the way to create healthy systems. Because 385 00:45:16.700 --> 00:45:17.760 Justine (she/her): ways 386 00:45:18.944 --> 00:45:19.740 Justine (she/her): certain 387 00:45:19.930 --> 00:45:21.080 Justine (she/her): people were. 388 00:45:21.350 --> 00:45:27.769 Justine (she/her): I'm actually going off. I'm I'm gonna stop because my brain's actually going on tangents right now. So anyway. 389 00:45:28.750 --> 00:45:30.209 Justine (she/her): I just have to say. 390 00:45:30.240 --> 00:45:33.249 Justine (she/her): I really appreciate this and this 391 00:45:34.180 --> 00:45:37.559 Justine (she/her): and that's it. I'm gonna stop and unmute myself. 392 00:45:38.890 --> 00:45:52.998 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Thank you. Testing. Yeah, I I really was connecting. And I got what you were talking about, at least my understanding of it. And I'm connecting it with like mechanization and industrialization. And the way that 393 00:45:53.540 --> 00:46:17.909 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): for that to function, we all just have to do like one job right and fit like a cog in a machine. But that's not nature. There's so much diversity, and there's so much difference. And you know, and actually, things work perhaps less efficiently but better overall in terms of flourishing ecosystems when we create things, structures built on that 394 00:46:17.910 --> 00:46:24.510 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): biodiversity rather than like normalcy and sameness. So I'm I'm really resonating. 395 00:46:25.550 --> 00:46:26.540 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): yeah. 396 00:46:27.300 --> 00:46:28.460 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): thank you. 397 00:46:29.520 --> 00:46:34.340 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): And, Caroline, did you want to share anything out loud or in the chat. 398 00:46:41.020 --> 00:46:51.550 Caroline (they/she): Just to say thank you for the conversation. Really, it's been much deeper. And say, I really appreciate just being here and being present with everything that's being said. 399 00:46:53.750 --> 00:46:56.923 Caroline (they/she): yeah, I'm I'm also just very tired. So 400 00:46:57.680 --> 00:47:00.951 Caroline (they/she): I'm just gonna just let it be 401 00:47:01.690 --> 00:47:03.460 Caroline (they/she): But I appreciated 402 00:47:04.070 --> 00:47:08.729 Caroline (they/she): I guess one thing I'd like to share is like I appreciate the prompts and 403 00:47:10.070 --> 00:47:16.359 Caroline (they/she): The things that came up within my kind of blood. Ancestral line was the connection to gardening and growing, growing. 404 00:47:16.780 --> 00:47:21.929 Caroline (they/she): cultivating, you know very much and tending to land clearing land. 405 00:47:22.571 --> 00:47:32.750 Caroline (they/she): And when, Susanna, you talked about how your family chanted, or, you know, like whether you said your family. But you know in your ancestral lines chanting, and I 406 00:47:33.810 --> 00:47:35.150 Caroline (they/she): and I thought about 407 00:47:35.200 --> 00:47:38.329 Caroline (they/she): the suddenness of not having that, because 408 00:47:38.450 --> 00:47:58.900 Caroline (they/she): for me, Montreux is such a alone activity. But it's so powerful when you do it together in community like, unless I'm sharing it, but that that everybody doing it together, everybody equal, because everybody's loving it and stuff. But then I remembered that actually, you know, with my dad's from Welsh family like we sang like we sang all the time. 409 00:47:59.920 --> 00:48:02.550 Caroline (they/she): You know, the Welsh are known for singing everywhere. 410 00:48:03.190 --> 00:48:09.659 Caroline (they/she): you know. So actually, we did. Just thanks. You know, that is what my kids. So 411 00:48:10.020 --> 00:48:10.740 Caroline (they/she): so yeah. 412 00:48:11.210 --> 00:48:13.389 Caroline (they/she): thank you for that journey of 413 00:48:13.670 --> 00:48:14.940 Caroline (they/she): exploration. And. 414 00:48:15.780 --> 00:48:20.110 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Absolutely. And thank you and wishing you lots of rest. 415 00:48:22.770 --> 00:48:25.002 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Yeah. And I love 416 00:48:25.920 --> 00:48:34.469 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): just united in relationship to South ecosystems, environment, people, creatures, great and small. I love the the like. 417 00:48:34.490 --> 00:48:41.859 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): It's like both, and right, like grieving and acknowledging, and you know and it can be little things like 418 00:48:41.960 --> 00:49:03.199 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): I had a conversation with a friend who was like the hummingbirds in my backyard are helping me be grounded. I'm like right. I have hummingbirds in my backyard, you know, like these little things that that we can just by shifting and bringing awareness to. That's a practical practice, you know. And so it it then nourishes us. 419 00:49:03.350 --> 00:49:17.589 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): And then Justine added, adding, in older generations who play practice, played quilting card games, singing, taking time for these activities to happen, bees, too, and watching a squirrel steal food from the bird feeder. Yeah. 420 00:49:18.060 --> 00:49:31.219 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): So I want to invite us as we close. I think we'll close with a chance. Just with that inspiration. Caroline, that was really beautiful. And but also to like, maybe there's just one simple thing 421 00:49:31.330 --> 00:49:43.671 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): you can take with you and for me while we were practicing. And I think during the meditation, or just after I had the vision of me just laying on the earth, you know. So like I'm gonna go and lay on the earth after this 422 00:49:44.758 --> 00:49:51.820 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): simple practice, and we will chant I probably do this one 423 00:49:52.090 --> 00:49:54.849 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): all the time now, but I feel like 424 00:49:55.390 --> 00:49:56.930 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): it's never 425 00:49:57.240 --> 00:50:05.460 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): not a good time to chant for peace one of the Shanti mantras in ourselves. 426 00:50:06.010 --> 00:50:21.519 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): We'll chant once for ourselves once for maybe a particular person or being or community, and then the 3rd time, for all beings well wishes, wishing for peace, for freedom, for freedom from suffering, and for everlasting joy. 427 00:50:21.810 --> 00:50:25.789 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): And it's loca semasta suki. No bavan, too. 428 00:50:25.860 --> 00:50:28.010 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): We'll start and end with Om. 429 00:50:28.060 --> 00:50:33.110 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): You can find an useful way to be and breathe in fully 430 00:50:33.840 --> 00:50:36.800 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): exhaling out all the air. 431 00:50:38.060 --> 00:50:40.360 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and then inhale to chant. 432 00:50:41.980 --> 00:50:44.780 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Oh. 433 00:50:47.810 --> 00:50:51.220 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Hello, kaha! 434 00:50:51.600 --> 00:50:54.470 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Summer stuff. 435 00:50:54.560 --> 00:50:56.900 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): suki! No 436 00:50:56.910 --> 00:51:00.510 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): pavan to 437 00:51:02.960 --> 00:51:09.050 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Hello! Kaha summer 438 00:51:09.170 --> 00:51:11.420 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): suki! No. 439 00:51:11.500 --> 00:51:14.830 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): the 1, 2. 440 00:51:18.040 --> 00:51:21.189 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Oh, God. 441 00:51:21.410 --> 00:51:24.100 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): semester 442 00:51:24.450 --> 00:51:31.290 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): suki! No, Pavan, do. 443 00:51:32.910 --> 00:51:34.150 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Oh. 444 00:51:43.040 --> 00:51:47.710 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): thank you so much for your presence. Thank you for your practice. 445 00:51:48.180 --> 00:51:56.359 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): You can unmute and say goodbye, and thanks to each of you. This was really beautiful, really deep and very special. 446 00:51:56.990 --> 00:51:57.819 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Thank you. 447 00:51:57.820 --> 00:51:59.000 Caroline (they/she): Thank you so much. 448 00:51:59.790 --> 00:52:00.310 dana wilk (she/her): You. 449 00:52:01.950 --> 00:52:03.798 dana wilk (she/her): Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. 450 00:52:04.270 --> 00:52:08.022 dana wilk (she/her): Yeah, it's really special. Thank you. Very much needed. 451 00:52:10.230 --> 00:52:11.110 dana wilk (she/her): Alright.